Memorandum-calendar



Patent'ed'lan. l0, I899.

E. A. ARMSTRONG.

MEMORANDUM CALENDAR.

(Application filed Jan. 8, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES EDWIN A.- ARMSTRONG,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MEMORANDUM-CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,387, dated January10, 1899.

Application filed January 8, 1898.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN A. ARMSTRONG, of Chicago, in the county ofCook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Memorandum Calendars; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarkedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a novel form of memorandum-calendar or ticklerwhich is designed for use by commercial and professional men to aid themin remembering future ap pointments or other matters which must beattended to upon a certain date.

The object of the invention is to provide a compact form of suchcalendar which will afford the maximum space upon each individual tabletbearing diiferent dates and days of the week and which will also givenotice to the user in ample time before such date arrives, so that anypreliminary work in the matter may be done before such date.

Heretofore calendars have been made which expose upon a single sheet thedays of a month arranged in series in proper relation with the days ofthe week. Such calendars are desirable for general office use; but owingto the large number of days (thirty or thirty-one) which must be placedupon a single sheet it is not practical to provide adjacent to eachindividual date a memorandum space or tablet of sufficient size to be ofpractical use without so increasing the size of the article as a wholeas to render it cumbersome. Moreover, any form of such calendar is notpractical for desk use, which it is one of the special objects of thisinvention to provide. Furthermore, it is the practice of business-men todestroy such memory-aiding memorandum after it has served its purpose,and this, as will be obvious, would be impractical with the device inquestion, which gives the calendar for a whole month.

Another form of calendar in common use and which is designed primarilyforuse upon a desk is one in which the successive days of the year arearranged in their chronological order and are each printed upon anindivid- Serial No. 666,015. (No model.)

ual tablet or sheet, which is made of such size as to provide room formemoranda. Such sheets or tablets are provided adjacent to one endthereof with perforations or with weakened lines by which each date maybe detached from the block or group as they become antedated. Such aformof calendar is a very desirable one for use on a desk and in which it isdesired that the appointments of business or professional arrangementsof one day only shall be brought to the notice of the user. This form ofcalendar, however, is defective in that the attention of the user is notcalled by the exposure of the sheet bearing a given date to the factthat the subject of the memorandum on said sheet is to be attended tountil that day has arrived, or until-the sheet of the day previousthereto has been removed from the device. Therefore, if such memorandumrequires preliminary work to.

be attended to before said day arrives the attention of the user hasbeen called to the matter too late, and the calendar has not thereforeserved the purpose for which it is designed.

It is the object of this invention to provide a calendar which willcombine to a certain extent the advantages of the. calendar firstdescribed, or one in which all of the days of one month or any givenperiod are simulta-, 'neously exposed to View, and the second form,

in which each day is provided with an individual tablet or sheet whichis of such size as to afford ample room for memoranda, but which at thesame time is made of such compact form that it may be used upon a desk.In order to secure these results, I propose to use tablets or sheetssubstantially like those which are at present used in the desk-calendar,or second form above mentioned, and to arrange said tablets or sheets ingroups, each group to be differentiated from the other groups by thename of the day of the week which it bears. In other words, I propose togroup each day of the week for a given period in their chronologicalorder from the beginning to the end of such period and arrange saidgroups'in their successive order with relation to the days of the weekwhich they bear. The tablets or sheets in each group and bearing thename of a certain day of the week will be arranged upon a block whichbears such name, so that each group will be designated by such certainday of the week, as well as by the day of the month which said tabletindicates. As the date upon each of the tablets or sheets becomesantedated said tablet will be removed, and the tablet bearing the dateof the day of that group one week in advance of the date carried by thesheet which has been removed will thus be exposed to view. It will thusbe seen that the group of tablets or sheets bearing the different daysof the week in their chronological order will expose to view at one timean entire week, (or any given period,) so that the attention of the userwill be called to any memoranda of appointments or other businessmatters one week (or other period) in advance of the time for which theappointment is made. Such notice therefore provides ample time for theuser to complete any preliminary arrangements which may be requiredprior to the date of said appointment.

I have shown in the drawings one form of arran the groups of tablets orsheets hearing the diiferent days of the week and have further shown twodetails of construction by which said groups are attached to a commonsupport; but it will be obvious that the groups may be otherwisearranged with relation to each other and may be variously secured to thesupport.

In said drawings, Figure 1 represents in perspective amemorandurn-calendar or tickler constructed and arranged in accordancewith my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken through one ofthe groups and through the fastening devices by which it is secured tothe supporting-back. Fig. illustrates a modified form of attaching thegroups of tablets or sheets to the supporting-back.

In said drawings, A designates a common support or back, and Bdesignates the different groups of tablets bearing the names of thedifferent days of the week and arranged in chronological order, whichare attached to said support or back A. The form of calendar shown inFig. 1 of the drawings is designed for commercial use and is provided,therefore, with only the names of the six workingdays of the week. Forother uses such as forclergymen, doctors, and the likethe tablet will beprovided with groups bearing the seven days of the week and may bearranged in any preferred or convenient manner. Said groups are arrangedin two rows and in successive order from left to right, the groupsbearing the names of Monday, Tuesday, and \Vednesday being arranged atthe upper side of said support A, while the groups bearing the names ofthe remaining days of the week are arranged at the lower side of saidsupport. This arrangement, howeveigis optional. All of the Mondays foragiven periodas, for instance, for one yearare arranged in one group intheir chronological order, so that as each tablet or sheet is removedfrom the group the sheet below the same, and

week.

which is exposed by the removal of the latter, will indicate the date ofthe Monday following that removed, or one week in advance of the sheetremoved. The same is true of all of the groups bearing the names of theremaining days of the week. lVith this arrangement it will be seen thatat any given time the e11- iire business week or six days, from Mondayto Saturday, inclusive, will be simultaneously exposed to the View ofthe user of the calcudar, the lowest date of the month indicating thebeginning of the week which is exposed to view at any given time.

The calendar, as shown in Fig. 1,is arranged for Tuesday, January 4,1898, while the suc" ceeding days are exposed to and including January10, 1898, or the Monday next following. As the entire business week nextsucceedingany given time is exposed to view, the user may know a week inadvance of any date which has been previously set for doing certain workor for keeping a certain appointment, and will thus be enabled toarrange his business affairs in view of such date or attend to anypreliminary matters which may be necessary.

5 As before stated, the groups or tablets may be otherwise arranged thanherein shown or may be of greater or less number. Furthermore, thetablets may be arranged to expose a period of two weeks instead of one,as shown, in which event the sheets bearing the name of a certain day ofthe week for a given period will not be grouped together, but will bearranged in two separate groups,and the dates instead of beingchronologically arranged will be arranged alternately with reference totheir chronological order-between the two groups bearing the name ofsuch day of the With this arrangement the user of the calendar will havetwo weeks notice of any memorandum which has been previously egteredupon any of the tablets or sheets.

The tablets or sheets shown in Fig. 1 consist of two sections Z2 12,divided by a line of perforations, by which one of said sections may bedetached from the other. The section I) is made of considerable size toprovide ample space for the memorandum, while the section b is made onlyof such width as to provide space for attaching the same to a suitablesupport or back. In the present instance each group is attached to thesupport A by means of a metallic clip 0, which is proided withrearwardly-extending prongs or arms 0, which pass through the sections Bof the tablets or sheets and through the support A and are clenched uponthe rear side of the latter, as more clearly seen in Fig. 2. In thepresent construction the clips are provided with fourrearwardly-extendin g prongs, two of which pass through the sections andtwo of which engage the upper ends thereof and pass through the supportabove the same. As a convenient arrangement the front portion of theclip is made of such size and form as to carry the name of the day ofthe week which the group to which it is attached represents, so that thename designating such group is permanently affixed thereto. Each of thesections 6 of the tablets or sheets 13 is provided with the name of themonth and date thereof and is also shown as further provided with thename of the day of the week corresponding to that which the grouprepresents. Such latter name, however, may be omitted, as the name whichis attached to the clip C will usually be sufficient for the purpose.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a modified form of the means for attachingthe'groups of tablets or sheets to the back A. Said attaching meansconsists of a metal rod or pin D, which is rigidly secured in anysuitable manner in the support A and projects forwardly therefrom. WVhenthis form of attachment is used, the sections 5 of the sheets B will beprovided centrally thereof with an aperture through which the pin Dpasses and by means of which the groups may be suspended upon a support.In order to prevent the sheets, whether in groups or separated, frombecoming accidentally detached from the pin, said pin will be providedoutside of said sheets or tab-- lets with an upwardly-bent portion orhead d. Said hook will be made of such length that the groups of sheetsor tablets may be intentionally removed, butwill prevent theiraccidental detachment. With this form of attaching means the tablets orsheets need not be bound together, as in the form shown in Fig. 1, butmay be loosely strung upon a hook, and instead of being provided withweakened lines formed by perforations, as in said previously-describedfigures, each sheet may be separately removed from the hook as the datewhich it bears becomes antedated.

It will be seen that the memorandum-calendar constructed in accordancewith myinvention possesses many advantages over the forms of office anddesk calendar now in use, as it provides for the maximum notice to theuser of the same of dates which have been previously set aside forcertain work and also provides with a very limited space ample room formemoranda for each day of the year. I claim as my invention- 1. As a newarticle of manufacture, a memorandum-calendar comprising a plurality ofsheets, each appropriated to a single day; the sheets appropriated tothe' different days of the week for a given period being arranged inseparate groups.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a memorandum-calendar comprising aplurality of sheets, each appropriated to a single day; the sheetsappropriated to the different days of the week for a given period beingarranged in chronological order in separate groups.

3. In a memorandum calendar or tickler, the combination with a back orsupport of a plurality of removable memorandum sheets or tablets, eachdesignated bya single day of week, month and year, and all of the sheetsbearing the same day of the week being ar ranged in the same group.

4. In a memorandum calendar or tickler, the combination with aback orsupport, of a plurality of groups of memorandum-sheets removablyattached to said support, each group comprising a plurality of sheetseach appropriated to a single day and the sheets of each grouprepresenting all the days of a certain name for a given period.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a memorandum calendar-or ticklercomprisingapluralit-y of groups of sheets or tablets, the sheets of eachgroup being appropriated singly to all of the days of a certain name foragiven period, and each group being provided with a common legenddesignating the day of the week represented by said sheets.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I affix mysignature, in presence of two witnesses, this 6th day of January, A. D.1898.

EDWIN A. ARMSTRONG.

W'itnesses:

TAYLOR E. BROWN, LUKIMER BRIGHT ARMSTRONG.

